The ground-effect makes sense for personal transport -- flying ground-effect cars. I'm surprised these haven't already appeared. They would be limited to a certain height off the ground -- say, six feet -- and would be useable not only on highways, but on any more or less level surface such as deserts and grasslands, including open water. For those who don't know, the ground-effect is useful because it gives you something for nothing. When you fly an aircraft close to the ground, or the water, you get a bounce-back effect under the craft that pushes it up into the air. The air compressed under the wings or props of the craft bounces off the ground and creates a zone of higher compression under the craft, helping to lift it. This means you can fly with less power, and less fuel comsumption. Widespread use of these vehicles would mean that the roads would not need to be maintained at the same level. They wouldn't need to be perfectly smooth. The other advantage is that you are close to the ground, so if you crash, it is going to be similar to a car crash, which we are all used to. You don't automatically die, as you do in most airplane crashes. It's like a hover craft, but higher off the ground. It should be quite easy to build ground-effect personal transportation vehicles with reasonable fuel economy and speeds of 150 MPH or so. I'm surprised it hasn't been done on a large scale yet. Maybe the faggots on the left are holding this technology back?